Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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... literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later writers , such as Sir Thomas More and Bacon , used Latin for works in prose , this was with a view to ...
... literary merit , but he is the last English poet who seriously used a foreign language as the medium of poetry ; and though later writers , such as Sir Thomas More and Bacon , used Latin for works in prose , this was with a view to ...
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... literary romance ; and those which have a purely literary origin in the romance , lay , or fabliau . Mr Courthope chooses ' The Battle of Otterburn ' as an example of his first class ; the Robin Hood ballads of the second ; and in the ...
... literary romance ; and those which have a purely literary origin in the romance , lay , or fabliau . Mr Courthope chooses ' The Battle of Otterburn ' as an example of his first class ; the Robin Hood ballads of the second ; and in the ...
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... literary intervention is required . A similar donnée ( in ' The Elfin Knight ' ) occurs in the Irish saga of ' Graidhne and Diarmaid , ' but not thence did it find its way into the Gesta Romanorum , a literary work which , again , can ...
... literary intervention is required . A similar donnée ( in ' The Elfin Knight ' ) occurs in the Irish saga of ' Graidhne and Diarmaid , ' but not thence did it find its way into the Gesta Romanorum , a literary work which , again , can ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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